Clothes peg



y 1950 .B. o. G. ANDERSSON 2,515,286

CLOTHES PEG Filed Feb. 4, 1949 In venfor- 7 l3. 0., G, A nae 'ssonPatented July 18, 1950 CLOTHES PEG Bror Olof Gabriel Andersson, Malmo,Sweden,

assignor to Firma Industrifornodenheter Lennart Rydenfors, Malmo,Sweden, a corporation of Sweden Application February 4, 1949, Serial No.74,615 In Sweden February 7, 1948 3 Claims.

As is well known clothes-pegs of the most customary type consist of twohingedly associated wooden peg halves held together by a coil spring ofgalvanized wire which is disposed between the peg halves in transverserecesses provided on the facing sides thereof and the ends of which arebent across the outer sides of the peg halves so as to press the lattertogether at the two ends thereof which are formed as clamping jaws.

Moreover, another type of clothes-pegs is known, which also consists oftwo hingedly associated peg halves held together by a substantiallyU-shaped resilient wire, but in which the arms of the wire extend, eachin a longitudinal groove provided in a peg half, towards the clampingjaws which are pressed together due to the action of the resilient wire,while the intermediate portion of the wire, which connects the armsthereof, is disposed in recesses which are provided in the peg halvesand which extend from the end of the peg remote from the jaws up to thehinge connection.

The present invention relates to a clothes-peg which constructionallydiffers from the abovementioned types of clothes-pegs and which presentsconsiderable advantages over the known pegs.

An object of the present invention is to provide a clothes-peg which, ascompared with the hitherto known types of clothes-pegs, can be easilymanufactured completely mechanically, i. e. a clothes-peg whichadvantageously permits not only the machining of its various parts butalso the assembly thereof in machines, it being thus possible tomanufacture the clothes-peg at extremely low costs.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clothes-peg in which theclothes do not easily come into contact with, or become soiled by, metalparts.

The clothes-peg according to the invention is also of the typecomprising two hingedly associated peg halves, clamping jaws provided onsaid peg halves, and a resilient wire substantially of U-shape forholding the peg halves together, said peg halves having each alongitudinal groove on its outer side for receiving the arms of theresilient wire, which extend in said grooves towards the clamping jawsto press them together, but in the present peg the intermediate portionof said U-shaped resilient wire is bent first at right angles to thewire arms to snap into transverse grooves provided in the peg halves,and then, after a new bending, along the lateral outer surface of thepeg to connect the two Wire arms so I U I that the peg is held togetherat the hinge point.

An embodiment of the invention will be elucidated in the followingdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in whichFig. 1 is a perspective View of a clothes-peg according to theinvention.

Fig. 2 is a side View of the peg.

Fig. 3 is also a side view of the peg, the peg being turned through inrelation to Fig.2.

Referring to the drawing, the clothes-peg consists of two peg halves land 2 of wood or other suitable material, which are hingedly associatedby means of a substantially U-shaped resilient wire 3, e. g. a pianowire. The arms of the resilient wire extend each along the outer side ofa peg half towards the ends 5 of the peg halves serving as clamping jawswhich are pressed together due to the action of the resilient wire. Eachpeg half is provided at its outer side with a longitudinal groove orrecess 6 for receiving the wire. The intermediate portion 1 of theresilient wire, connecting its arms, extends around one half of the pegfrom the outer side of the one peg half to the outer side of the otherpeg half and may lie preferably on the outer side of the two peg halvesin transverse grooves 8 provided therein, which prevent the resilientwire from sliding in the longitudinal direction of the peg. Whenassembling the clothes-peg, the resilient wire is passed with itsintermediate portion 1 first on to the peg halves held together and ispulled over the peg, which is preferably made somewhat tapered, from thejaws towards the other end of the peg until the intermediate portion Iof the resilient wire snaps into the transverse groove 8 on the outersides of the peg halves. This assembling operation may be effected bymachines at a great speed and therefore also at low costs.

The grooves 8 for the intermediate portion 1 of the resilient wire arearranged at the point where the hinge connection between the peg halvesis situated. This hinge connection may be formed e. g. by a transversesemi-circular tongue 9 on the one peg half I and by a correspondingrecess H] on the other peg half 2. The arms of the resilient wire may begiven any suitable length and the wire may have any suitable thickness.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A clothes-peg comprising two hingedly associated peg halves, clampingjaws provided on said peg halves, and a resilient wire substantially ofU-shape for holding the peg halves together,

said peg halves having each a longitudinal groove on its outer side forreceiving the arms of the resilient Wire, which extend in said groovestowards the clamping jaws to press them together, said peg halves eachhaving a transverse groove on the outer side thereof, an intermediateportion of said U-shaped resilient wire being bent first at right anglesto the wire arms to snap into said transverse grooves provided in thepeg halves and being additionally bent at right angles to the first bendalong the lateral outer surface of the peg to connect the two wire armsso that the peg is held together at the hinge point thereof.

2. .A clothes-peg as claimed in claim 1 and wherein the arms of saidU-shape wire extend straight from said intermediate portion to the freeends thereof.

3. A clothes-peg as claimed in claim 2, said longitudinal groovesextending to the free edge of each said peg half adjacent said clampingjaws, whereby said wire is connectible to said clothespeg by slidingsaid intermediate portion toward said transverse groove from the endhaving said jaws with the arms sliding in said longitudinal groovesuntil said intermediate portion enters saidtransverse groove and isseated therein.

BROR OLOF GABRIEL ANDERSSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,109,984 Guenette Sept. 4, 19141,491,941 Wood Apr. 29, 1924 2,466,284 'Stinne Apr. 5, 1949 2,467,864Sisk Apr. 19, 1949

